There is no "best" duty station for progression, your units timeline and command climate will determine how much you're gonna fly.

You may possibly make PC in Korea in a year depending on how good you are and your command and stands section.

Even if you do make PC in Korea, your going to do so with minimal hours maby 250-300 you can expect when you PCS to another unit to not be a PC for a couple of months to a year.

Obviously there's going to be exception to this and I'm sure you can expect people to come in here and give you "my buddy" stories. Truth is it's all about timing, location doesn't have a whole lot to do with it.

Korea seemingly has no flight hour restrictions. We fly our ASS off here. Making PC, especially as a 60 guy, will come quickly. If you CSP and AIP, you will track after your second year, and spend a year tracked. Many other guys going to CONUS units will still be PIs.

Sure, I have heard that too. I also do not give a f*ck. We fly a ton here. More than CONUS. Period.

Korea PCs aren't excepted as PCs CONUS because you aren't required to know the NAS. The same goes for guys who make PC down range. When you mske PC flying in a bubble it's very different then when you get back to NAS.

They are REAL PCs but I don't really care about how many hours someone has, I care about thier knowledge, descion making and maturity. Hours means jack.

4th: Our schoolhouse is inadequate to produce enough pilots to keep up with attrition. The Stopgap was the NETT for the F model, but that is complete for the active duty. AQT is going to plug some holes with 58D guys.

Just had our selection brief today and there are several new duty stations for 60Ms. They are: Ft Polk, Ft Irwin, Yakima, Benning, and Rucker. We then went to a brief with the HRC lady who gives us our assignments and she told us these are going to become permanent duty stations (TDA). Some if not all of these are currently 72 units that will allbe going to 60M. It will be the medevac mission. The benefit to it is that since in essence they are brand new, you will not be competing with anyone for progression and will progress immediately. The flight time will be there. It is part of the Aviation Restructuring Initiative. I am curious as to your thoughts (current Army Aviators). I am considering Yakima in addition to two "normal" duty stations (JBLM and Hawaii). Currently Campbell, Germany, and Honduras are all not available (for 60Ms).